Current Distribution of the Introduced Rock Lizards of the Darevskia (saxicola) Complex (Sauria, Lacertidae, Darevskia) in Zhytomyr Region (Ukraine)

Nekrasova, O. D., Kostiushyn, V. A.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/vzoo-2016-0026

Abstract

In the autumn of 2015 current distribution of the lizards of Darevskia (saxicola) complex, introduced in 1960s in Zhytomyr administrative region of Ukraine was studied. During the period from introduction until now Darevskia (saxicola) complex has spread along the left bank of the Teteriv River on the territory about 3.7 km lengths. Beside this was found an isolated population of this species, which located about at 4 km direct distance or 8.5 km shore line distance from the main area of occurring this species. It is supposed that this secondary introduction took place occasionally or intentionally due to holidaymakers (e. g. climbers, fishermen). The publication provides description of the lizards on 15 morphological characteristics and information on the results of spatial modeling potential distribution the rock lizards.

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